Month: May 2026

The Castle of Mey: What the Windsors’ Most Remote Property Reveals

 Isla Campbell  May 31, 2026

The castle in Caithness that Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother bought in 1952 and that Charles has maintained since inheriting…

The King’s Speech and the Constitutional Fiction It Requires

 Isla Campbell  May 31, 2026

The State Opening of Parliament requires Charles to read his government’s programme in the first person as if it were…

Where Harry and Meghan Stand in 2025: An Honest Assessment

 Isla Campbell  May 31, 2026

Three years after Spare, the situation is: civil, non-communicative, and defined by the absence of any formal occasion requiring them…

The Jonathan Yeo Portrait: Art History Reads the Red

 Isla Campbell  May 31, 2026

The official Charles III coronation portrait commissioned from Jonathan Yeo — what the specific choices of red background, pose, and…

Trooping the Colour: What Changed for Charles and What Has Not

 Isla Campbell  May 31, 2026

The third Trooping the Colour of Charles’s reign — what adaptations his reign has made to the ceremony’s form, what…

The Coronation One Year On: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What the Palace Learned

 Isla Campbell  May 30, 2026

Isla Campbell on the Aftermath of a Ceremony That Went Surprisingly Well and What Comes Next for the Institution Bohiney…

The Royal Family and Diversity: What the Palace Has and Hasn’t Done

 Isla Campbell  May 30, 2026

Isla Campbell on the Institution’s Relationship With Britain’s Multicultural Society and Whether It’s Changed Enough Bohiney Magazine | The London…

Prince Harry’s Ongoing Absence and What It Means for the Institution

 Isla Campbell  May 30, 2026

Isla Campbell on the Duke of Sussex, the Transatlantic Monarchy Question, and How Institutions Process Estrangement Bohiney Magazine | The…

The King’s Speech and What It Reveals About Constitutional Monarchy in the Age of Strong Opinions

 Isla Campbell  May 30, 2026

Isla Campbell on What It Means That the Monarch Reads a Government’s Agenda as Though It Were His Own Bohiney…

What the Royal Family Does and Doesn’t Tell Us About Britain in 2026

 Isla Campbell  May 30, 2026

Isla Campbell on the Monarchy, the Public Mood, and the Specific Way the Institution Refuses to Become Irrelevant Bohiney Magazine…